Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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KEMPERETMILITARYMSCIIOOL locality, under only two heads. The School has grown to its present status through its own merit, without the aid of churches, boards, or benefactors. It has a wide patronage. A large faculty of college-trained men of experience and approved character insures small classes and thorough supervision. It is considered by the University of Missouri as one of its best preparatory schools. Its graduates are admitted without examination to all colleges and universi- ties in the United States that admit on certincate. It is meeting the require- ments of the University of Missouri as a junior college and its work will be accepted by colleges and universities without examination. The school possesses superior facilities for looking after the health and physical development of its pupils. A sound body is necessary for successful training and scholarship. These facts should serve to assure prospective patrons that their boys will have the benefit of methods and influences that have stood the test of time and won the approbation of a long succession of previous patrons. Military school methods are not designed primarily to make soldiers, but the training proves invaluable in meeting an emergency like the recent one. The social environment of the school is good. The cadet honor system and strict discipline quickly eliminate the unsuitable boy. Military training is used as a formative process, which attends better than any other method to all details of habit and personality and insures adequate and proper devel- opment of every power instead of leaving much of the process to chance with resultant failure and damage. The material equipment of the School is excellent and completeg its pat- ronage is from the best families of the Middle Westg the charges are moder- ate for the advantages offered. Full particulars are given in the following pages. You are invited to visit the School and learn its merits at first hand. It is hoped that you will become interested and entrust your boy to us. Very respectfully, SZl1J6l'f7IfU71df'H f. Among the most helpful influences at Kemper in forming a boy's character are the daily chapel talks given by the super- intendent. These talks are short and cover all the problems that confront the boy. Some of the most effective talks are on the following subjects: Hoe Out Your Row The Cleansing of the Way The Rewards of Wisdom The Strange Woman The Whimperer The Example of a Great Life Tobacco and Youth The Virtue of Obedience The Gambler Lincoln Fidelity in Little Matters The Unlicked Cub The Polished Front Profanity Honor Thy Father Rumors Treasures of the Bible Peace With Thy Neighbors Thrift Puppy Love The Glutton The Truest Honor Paying for a Whistle Wheat and Chaff The Circumspect Walk The Cliff Driver The Quitter The Reservationist Arrested Development Rocks in the Machinery I S

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HISTORY Kemper is by far the oldest boys' school in the West. It was founded by Frederick T. Kemper of Virginia in June, 1844, and has been in continuous existence since that time, a period of eighty years. It is one of the pioneer institutions of the West, coming down through the years, rich in tradition and full of achievement. Its history and development have been contemporaneous with the history and development of the West. Its standards have been the best standards of the time. Its graduates have achieved distinction in business, professional and political life for three generations. They have responded to their training and answered their country's call in time of need from Monterey to the Marne, in peace and in war. Its fixed purposes and its steady growth have been due in no small measure to the fact that it, like other successful schools, has had few changes of ad- ministration. The founder conducted the school for thirty-seven years till his death in 1881. Colonel T. A. Johnston, the present head, has conducted it since that time. He entered the school as a student in 1867, graduated in 1869, and except for the time he spent at the University of Missouri, was associated with Professor Kemper as a teacher until 1881 when he became superintendent. EQUIPMENT With the completion of the new fire-proof barracks in September, 1918, Kemper became one of the best equipped private military schools in America. It has ample accommodation for 400 cadets. There are four large barracks, a gymnasium, a power house, armory and other buildings. The buildings have been erected with a special view to their use, and are commodious and well adapted to the needs of the students. The first Hoors of the barracks buildings are used for class rooms and oflices, and the upper floors for cadets and teachers. The cadet rooms are of even size, and are furnished with a double-deck bed, table, chairs, wardrobe, toilet conveniences, etc. A fac- ulty ofiicer lives on each hall. Each floor is provided with first class toilets and shower-baths. The buildings are heated by steam and lighted by electricity from the school power house. D Barracks, the new fire-proof building, is U-shaped, and 180 feet square. It is probably the largest and best arranged barracks building in America. It will accommodate over 200 cadets. The space between the wings is one story high, and contains the mess hall, a spacious room without obstruc- tion of columns, with ample seating capacity for 500. An assembly hall, 38x87 feet, occupies the first floor of the west wing. A considerable portion of the basement is turned over to the drawing tables, benches, lathes, and forges of the manual training department. P N